Posted on 08/07/2022 7:19:08 AM PDT by Hojczyk
On August 21, 1992,” Randy Weaver later testified,
federal marshals shot my son Samuel in the back and killed him. He was running home to me. His last words were, ‘I’m coming, Dad.’ They shot his little arm almost off and they killed him by shooting him in the back with a 9-millimeter submachine gun. The gun had a silencer on it. He was not wanted for any crime. He did not commit any crime. The marshals killed his dog right at his feet. He only tried to defend himself and his dog.
Sammy was just 14 years old. He did not yet weigh 80 pounds. He was not yet 5 feet tall. The marshals who killed Sammy were grown men. They were in combat gear. They had their faces painted with camouflage. They were wearing full camouflage suits with black ninja-type hoods. They were carrying machine guns and large caliber semi automatic pistols. They were trained to kill. Two of them were hiding behind trees and rocks in the woods where they could not be seen. The third was around a bend in the trail in thick forest. They were under direct orders from Washington to do nothing to injure the children. They were to have no contact or confrontation with me or my family. They killed him anyway in violation of their orders.
One day later, Vicki Weaver was holding infant daughter Elisheba in the cabin doorway when FBI sniper Lon Horiuchi shot the unarmed mother in the face, killing her instantly. Snipers are trained carefully “to acquire” the target, so there is little chance the shooting was accidental.
completely without warning of any kind, an FBI sniper shot and killed my wife Vicki. He was using a .308 caliber sniper rifle with a specially weighted barrel and 10-power scope. He was using match grade ammunition. He had years of training to kill. I heard him testify at the trial that he wanted to kill. He shot my wife in the head and killed her. She was not wanted for any crime. There were no warrants for her arrest. At the time she was gunned down, she was helpless. She was standing in the doorway of her home. She was holding the door open for me and Sara and for Kevin Harris. She was holding Elisheba, our 10-month-old baby girl, in her arms. As the bullet crashed through her head, she slumped to her knees, holding Elisheba so she would not drop her. We took the baby from her as she lay dead and bleeding on our kitchen floor.
Louis Freeh, the Clinton pick for FBI boss, expressed “regret and sorrow for Mrs. Weaver’s death,” which was “tragic but accidental.” For Freeh, a former federal judge, the sniper’s second shot was “constitutional.”
Freeh also referred to the “murder” of Degan, which was inaccurate given the 1993 trial that acquitted Weaver and Harris of that charge. “Serious mistakes occurred with regard to the Ruby Ridge incident,” testified Freeh, who promoted Larry Potts, the agent in charge, to deputy director of the FBI, only to demote him when controversy ensued.
Attorney General William Barr spent two weeks organizing former attorney generals to defend FBI sniper Lon Horiuchi, whose kill-shot on Vicki Weaver was “constitutional,” and also an “accident” and one of the many “mistakes” that could have been avoided but weren’t.
Ruby Ridge is the legacy of Bill Barr and GHW Bush.
Too bad there was not some Nation nearby that would send Military to protect Sammy and people like the Weavers that are Murdered by their Government.
I haven’t forgotten.
Bill Barr. /SPIT
Ruby Ridge was my wake up call.
Meet The New Boss - Same As The Old Boss
Ashli Babbitt could not be reached for comment.....
P*sses me off to this day.
I remember listening to MSM news reports of the FBI standoff with a dangerous “white supremacist’ in Idaho at the time.
They’ve been lying to us for decades.
Ruby Ridge was horrific. I saw the daughter interviewed years later.....just awful.
I wonder if these were Vannity’s 99% good guy FBI.
This was not only a travesty but criminal. These people should be in prison.
Attorneys general. Are there no competent editors anymore?
Everyone involved in that obscene debacle should have faced prision time and civil penalties.
The fact they haven’t tells you everything you need to know about what the Government thinks of you and your family.
Yup, I revisited the story of Ruby Ridge recently with a New York Times Retro Report video and they were showing old footage from the time and the propaganda was going strong in the news reports from then. They painted him as some crazy, right wing nut.
The daughter is featured in the link I posted in #13.
Department of Homeland Security study classified persons judged “suspicious of centralized federal authority” and “reverent of individual liberty” as “extreme right wing terrorists.”
The foundational thinking of our country is now evil.
Eyes can go to many things. The issue is complex, not simple. It came down to a pissing match here, a win/lose situation and we can cite many other situations.
None of us would support the Oklahoma bomber? They put the two of them in the same category. Do we? should we?
The point of this article is to reflect on it. Maybe mental rehearsal of what was done and could be done differently. And what we THINK we may do under similar circumstances.
Police State: How America’s Cops Get Away with Murder Hardcover – Bargain Price, September 8, 2015
https://www.amazon.com/Police-State-Americas-Cops-Murder/dp/B01L98PNTO
Mostly about the FBI…..he sued the government in the Weaver case
I was pretty young but this was my eye opener, having my eyes half open by then, anyway.
Then, in ‘93, just to prove they could do better, our benevolent government roasted dozens of women and children alive at Waco.
This upstanding West Pointer killed Vickie at Ruby, and involved with Waco, too.
-——Lon Tomohisa Horiuchi (born June 9, 1954) is an American former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Hostage Rescue Team (HRT) sniper and former United States Army officer who was involved in the 1992 Ruby Ridge standoff and 1993 Waco siege. In 1997, Horiuchi was charged with manslaughter for killing Vicki Weaver at Ruby Ridge, but the charges were later dropped. -——
I have heard the FBI now considers any chatter about Ruby, Waco, the Revolutionary War, various, patriotic flags, etc., to be identifiers of terrorists.
What THAT tells you is that the FBI and the federal government are active enemies of the US, US citizens, and our Constitution, much like any despotic murderer wants to get rid of the old guard who defends his heritage and freedom.
We are at war.
Wasn’t FBI Sniper Lon Horiuchi also involved in Branch Dividian Situation in Waco, I’m not sure his role but I’m sure it was good.
The FBI has always been more concerned with image than with mission.
One of the first big FBI screwups was in Wisconsin, at the Little Bohemia Lodge, not far from where I grew up.
From there, the FBI’s account differs from other historic recountings of the incident. Most notably, it makes no mention of agents misfiring upon three Civil Conservation Corps members nor that CCC member Eugene Boisneau was fatally shot.
Bttt.
5.56mm
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